As advertised, our flight back to Nairobi from Masai Mara was only a bit less bumpy than the roads – but, at least, it was shorter. There, we ate lunch, then loaded into a second set of vans for the drive to Amboseli [ditto on the roads]. We’d seen so much already, I wondered, […]
Our tour leader, Tony [Antonio], was quite a character. He’s guided photographic Safaris for 29 years – which is as long as they’ve existed. In 1977, Kenya [and later Tanzania] outlawed all Big Game hunting, and trips such as ours is what took their place. He grew up in Mozombique. At 12, he was in […]
Moving west from Nairobi towards Masai Mara, there’s a sudden descent into the Great Rift Valley. I had no idea it was there. The rifts I knew about [places where the earth’s techtonic plates are moving away from each other] are in the mid-Atlantic and mid-Pacific Oceans. But there’s a huge one that starts in […]
The Migratory Path DECEMBER, JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH The Serengeti National Park / Ngorongoro Conservation Area is arguably the most impressive wildlife sanctuary in the world. During the months December through March the seemingly unending plains of the southern Serengeti and the Conservation Area are inhabited by enormous herds of wildebeest and zebra. The great herds […]
It’s hard for me to get out of Africa in my mind. It was such a compelling experience. While we went to see the animals, what lingers is the place itself and its people. Our guide said on the first day, "Safari doesn’t mean vacation, it means journey." He was certainly right about that. We […]
She’s telling her story well. There is a part that does bother me about this story. It’s when she says that she and her husband never conceived that she would be "outed" in retaliation for his op-ed piece. I believe what she says, but I agree that they were both being very naive. By the […]
Wandering through Africa on a three week trip, we flew through Dubai, the Disney World/Las Vegas of the Arabian Desert and spent a few days in Nairobi, Kenya before venturing out into the incredible African Game Parks in Kenya and Tanzania. There was plenty of opportunity to talk to people along the way and find […]
It is possible that one might have two days in a life that live up to one’s first day on an African Plain, but I kind of doubt it…